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CyberWire – in the first incident of its kind, an officer of the Chinese intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), is in US custody facing hacking charges. Yanjun Xu, a Deputy Division Director in MSS’s Jiangsu State Security Department, Sixth Bureau, was apprehended by Belgian authorities in April and extradited to the US on Tuesday.
Security firm names N.J. man to lead East Coast team
ROI-NJ – A Seattle-based security services company has named a New Jersey man as its East Coast director, heading up its software and other services in the region. IOActive Inc. said Tom Brennan brings more than 20 years of software security expertise to the job, including serving as chairman of the Americas board for CREST International, a nonprofit certification and accreditation organization. He will be based in Rockaway.
Cybersecurity Future Trends: Why More Bots Means More Jobs
Security Intelligence – As the technological world hurls into the 2020s and cybersecurity future trends become reality, many experts expect the industry to evolve rapidly. Among the paradigm shifts still to come from digital innovation, data protection is bound to change and expand beyond the capabilities of today’s most common tools.
IOActive Engages Tom Brennan to Accelerate East Coast Client Operations
Industry Veteran Joins IOActive to Serve as Software Security Strategist Seattle, Wash., October 10, 2018 – IOActive, Inc., the worldwide leader in research-fueled security services, today announced that Tom Brennan will serve the organization as its East Coast Director. In this role, Brennan will be responsible for helping IOActive’s Global 1000 customers architect and customize software security programs based on Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices. Tom will represent IOActive’s full range of technical and programmatic professional services to help bolster security for IOActive’s clients along the East Coast,…
Inner Circle Podcast Episode 014 – John Sawyer Discusses the Value of Red Team Assessments
Techspective – My guest for this episode of the Inner Circle podcast is John Sawyer, Associate Director of Services at IOActive. Are you secure? Sure, you’ve invested a lot of time, money and effort to security and you’ve implemented firewalls, spam filters, antimalware solutions, intrusion detection and other security tools, and you’ve developed and implemented security policies–but are you sure they’re effective? Are you confident that you can detect or block an attack right now?
IOActive Becomes a Founding Provider for New Framework from Open Compute Project Foundation to Improve Data Center and Cloud Security Posture